I work at the interface of geomicrobiology and organic geochemistry. I use techniques including microscopy, microbial culturing, lipid extraction and analysis, and stable isotope geochemistry with H, C, N and S to study microbial ecology, microbial transformation of organic molecules and the molecular and isotopic imprints microbes leave behind in the geologic record.

Join the Lab!The Dawson lab is a new group and is currently recruiting undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. Contact me more more details: kat.dawson -at- rutgers.edu